Texters: Future pro writers

Here's a concept: "With their mouths largely shut but their laptops and flip phones open, teenagers' bedrooms are beginning to sound like the library." Seriously, text is far and away today's hottest communications medium, a USATODAY report indicates. So parents concerned about teen blogging and social networking may appreciate a definite upside, expressed beautifully in a sidebar to the USATODAY piece: Today's teens may not be talking, but they're writing regularly and eloquently. Amy Goldwasser, a Manhattan-based freelance editor and writer who's about to submit to publishers a collection of essays by teenage girls from across the USA, says the 1,500 submissions she has received about "life and death and God" are fluid, articulate and intimate." Could people in the publishing industry say that about us when we were teenagers? Here's an in-depth piece about Australia's avid teen texters in the Sydney Morning Herald.